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Chris Mooney (remember spin framing?) is at it again. This time he writes for Mother Jones : 7 Reasons Why It's Easier for Humans to Be...

Brian Pallister is the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba. Here's a statement he made the other day. I'm not p...

Here's a photo of Bill Farrell ("Doc Bill") and Louis C on the Sandwalk. They join a distinguished list of people whose vis...

On this American Thanksgiving Day, David Klinghoffer gives thanks for Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne [ Thank Goodness for Richard Dawkins ]...

I recently discovered a new book called The Princeton Guide to Evolution . It looks pretty authoritative so I ordered a copy. There are ex...

Last week's molecule was the second messenger, phosphatidylinositol 4,5- bis phosphate or PIP 2 . The winner is Dean Bruce. The undergra...

I had an interesting conversation with a student the other day. She's studying "bioethics" at the University of Toronto. This ...

Do you remember Vincent Joseph Torley (vjtorley)? He's the IDiot with a Ph.D. (2007) from the Department of Philosophy at the University...

The Pet Sounds album by The Beach Boys was released in 1966. The album ranks in the top ten of almost everyone's list of best albums (...

One thing that draws me to the ID movement is that it has the polite and understated ethic that science is supposed to have -- but does not ...

Is it true that the music of the Baby Boomers is a whole lot better than the music of Generation-X or the Millennials (Generation-Y)? Of cou...

Today's version of the Toronto Star has several articles on kindness and empathy. The feature article appears on the front page of the ...

In Denyse O'Leary's latest post she claims (again) that "Darwin's followers" used junk DNA as an argument for their po...

November 22, 1963: President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. June 6, 1968: Robert ...

It was about 3pm and I was sitting in my geometry class at Nepean High School in Ottawa, Canada. This was my final year of high school. I li...